If you don’t mind doing it with a C CLI: https://github.com/edenhill/kafkacat
$ kafkacat -L -b mybroker But, uhhh, you probably want a something in the Java API. :) > On Sep 3, 2015, at 13:58, Gwen Shapira <g...@confluent.io> wrote: > > Ah, I wish. > > We are working on it :) > > On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Simon Cooper < > simon.coo...@featurespace.co.uk> wrote: > >> Is there a basic interface in the new client APIs to get the list of >> topics on a cluster, and get information on the topics (offsets, sizes, >> etc), without having to deal with a producer or consumer? I just want a >> basic synchronous API to query the metadata as-is. Does this exist in some >> form? >> >> Thanks, >> Simon >>